Is it any wonder I drink?

[quijote]

I lived in Joisey for five years and never heard of a vole. Thanks, Bucko, for the vole-luminous info.

It sounds like you handled the situation well, Georgie. Your story reminded me of something that scarred me a little. When I was in 4th grade, one morning I found two little robin's eggs lying on the ground; I guess they had fallen out of a nest. I didn't want to leave them there, open to all sorts of predators, so I took them with me to school, hoping the teacher would know what to do. The teacher decided to pass the eggs around the room (in a little container), from student to student, before finding someone to "take care of them" (whatever that meant). The eggs went across the room, and a student discovered that both eggs had been crushed! The student sitting next to her had crushed the two little eggs with his thumbs....I was crushed, too. The teacher reprimanded the predator, but I was in trauma for quite a long time.


[This message has been edited by quijote (edited 06-02-2003).]